CHRYSLER CENTURA SIX
1970s Australia was a land of changing tastes. We embraced pizza and KFC, our houses were getting bigger and being made from brick, our cars were smaller but with no less power.
Holden started the trend by slotting six-cylinder engines into the shell of an elongated Vauxhall Viva, followed by Ford with six-cylinder versions of the TC Series Cortina.
That left Chrysler, the smallest of our country’s ‘Big Three,’ with the choice of designing a contender from scratch or finding an existing design to fill the gap. It found one in France.
The Chrysler 180 was a mid-sized sedan intended at one point to
